alt Hacker News> Is not far at all from proprietary models if you give it tools, skills and agents etc,
I use Qwen 3.6 27B, the dense version of this model which is slightly better.
I don't agree that it's close at all. Maybe for some small, easy tasks, but not for working on real codebases. It's amazing for something I can run at home, but the difference between it and Opus or GPT-5.5 is huge.
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I've had the opposite experience, and have built multiple fantastic applications with Qwen3.6 27b. What quantization have you tested with?
> not for working on real codebases
You don't pick just one model to "work on real codebases". You use a very advanced model to plan, and a not-very-advanced, cheaper, faster model to execute planned tasks. This saves money and speeds up work. This is the guidance from Anthropic & OpenAI.
Really, how so? Because we work with codebases daily, can you tell us a concrete example! In our case we work in consumer hardware (ish), 10 million ctx (1 million output, 1 million input proven, sometimes it loops or breaks at over 500k ctx byt at ~17tps linear). IT can read the full codebase, unleash agents, and write in disk editing and patching files creating a full app in 3-4 minutes. IT can do Web search and Rag pretty fast, it understands and fix the user query, sys prompts and adapt/fix them if needed on the fly. I am wondering what more do you do?